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| Thread ID: 112605 | 2010-09-13 21:48:00 | Server 2003 - No disk error on admin console | Chilling_Silence (9) | Press F1 |
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| 1136957 | 2010-10-10 19:58:00 | So we've done a reboot over the weekend to install the latest windows updates on sunday when it was least utilized. Machine didn't come back up initially, because we'd left the blank floppy image in the virtual host and it was trying to boot from it. So we unmounted it and told the VM Host to leave the floppy drive disconnected (So it shouldn't feel there is one). It booted up happily, but we're back to having the same issue again now. We could put the virtual floppy image back in, but yeah ... So we did a search of the registry for "A:" and nothing comes up with the exception of a reference to "WIA" and one in the Mounted Devices section (Which I believe is auto-generated)? Because it's a live server, we didn't wanna go deleting the registry key in case it did something catastrophic and we had a lot of unhappy people. Basically the server has McAfee on it for antivirus, no scheduled scans, and SQL Server. That's pretty much all there is on the server really... So, there's no poorly removed thumbdrives, no BIOS virus, the same mouse software is used on all our machines (VMWare Tools). Any other ideas on tracking down this sucker? |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1136958 | 2010-10-10 20:04:00 | [QUOTE=Chilling_Silence;956269] Basically the server has McAfee on it for antivirus QUOTE] Really? That's terrible. Why not use something decent. Maybe that's it's problem. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1136959 | 2010-10-10 20:17:00 | Really? That's terrible. Why not use something decent. Maybe that's it's problem. +1 We're reviewing anti-virus now. Still, like you, I'm just starting out at this company, so can't fix everything overnight ;) Naturally I'm going to be pushing for NOD32 + Eset Remote Administrator etc, but we've gotta make sure it's going to be cost-effective... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1136960 | 2010-10-10 21:31:00 | Seeing as it is a VM it's not a shared folder that you have removed and not removed the mapping. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1136961 | 2010-10-10 21:46:00 | Is it looking for a floppy disk or the drive period?, is this ESX, ESXi or VMWare server? | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1136962 | 2010-10-10 21:58:00 | Not a shared folder. We tried having a floppy drive connected with nothing in it, same error. VMWare ESX I believe, but not 100%, I didn't set it up .... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1136963 | 2010-10-10 22:11:00 | Not a shared folder. We tried having a floppy drive connected with nothing in it, same error. VMWare ESX I believe, but not 100%, I didn't set it up .... So you have something trying to access the floppy drive?, a/v schedule?, defrag? indexing?...was this happening at same time every day? |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1136964 | 2010-10-11 00:14:00 | Yeah it was happening at 8AM, now it's happening at midnight. No A/V schedule, no defrag, no scandisk, and I don't *think* there's any indexing though that's worth me double-checking. Thanks :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1136965 | 2010-10-11 00:37:00 | Unless it's something to do with SNMP configuration and it's environment if using WMI provider, or some other add on Microsoft set up example here (support.microsoft.com). Any clues in event viewer or logs? | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1136966 | 2010-10-11 01:18:00 | Yeah it was happening at 8AM, now it's happening at midnight. No A/V schedule, no defrag, no scandisk, and I don't *think* there's any indexing though that's worth me double-checking. Thanks :) Just thought, you're not running shadow copies are you, that would explain why it works with an image with nothing on it and it runs to a schedule! |
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